Spatial Computing Meets Realistic Mobile Wireless Problems

Controlling and leveraging the vast and ever-growing number of wireless devices around us has become a serious problem. Spatial computing offers a promising approach toward solving this problem, in the form of higher-level dis-tributed programming abstractions. Many challenging mobile communications problems, however, can only be investigated using a realistic and detailed model of wireless communication. We thus demonstrate a new research platform, integrating the MIT Proto spatial computing suite with the OMNeT++ network simulator framework, which will enable investigation of spatial computing solutions to difficult mobile wireless problems.